UP polls: 7-year-old girl seeks votes for dad in Ayodhya

AYODHYA: She is seven years old, a student of class III, but gets up early in the morning even in this chilly winter and is on road by 7am, seeking votes for her father

Pawan Pandey

, who is aiming to contest from Ayodhya for the third time.

Pandey made his electoral debut in 2012 assembly election as Samajwadi Party candidate and defeated BJP stalwart Lallu Singh, who is now MP from Faizabad.

He won the seat again in 2012 but lost in BJP’s tsunami of 2017.

His daughter Gauri goes on a door-to-door visit for two hours before going to school then two hours in the evening.

“I am seeking votes for my father so that Akhilesh Yadav can become chief minister,” Gauri told TOI.

Ayodhya constituency remained impregnable for opposition from 1991 to 2012 till BJP lost in 2012 after 21 years.